Milestone, Old Coate Road , Swindon
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Milestone, Old Coate Road , Swindon
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper Taken: 18 May 2008
Richard Jefferies mentions this in his classic book ' The Life of the Fields' thus ''Often and often I rambled up to the milestone which stood under an oak, to look at the chipped inscription low down-'To London, 79 Miles'.So far away, you see, that the very inscription was cut at the foot of the stone, since no one would be likely to want that information. It was half hidden by docks and nettles, despised and unnoticed.''
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Image Location
Latitude
51.542808
Longitude
-1.735062